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title: about
subtitle: About me.
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I'm Anirudh Oppiliappan, often found as **icyphox** (or sometimes just
**icy**) on the Internet. I live in Bangalore, India and work for
[Ory](https://ory.sh) as a Site Reliability Engineer. Below are a few
things that interest me, and can serve as conversation starters for you:

- Security. All kinds of it: operational, physical, threat intel,
  cloud-native, etc.
- Infrastructure. Kubernetes, containers, observability.
- Geopolitics and national security; mostly eastern Europe and Russia.
- Motorsport. I closely follow F1, F2 and F3.
- Startups. I work (and worked) for one.
- Fitness. Strength training, calisthenics.
- The Go programming language. I love Go and I swear by the standard
  library.
- Language learning. Spoken, obviously. Currently learning Russian. Big
  fan of total immersion and comprehensible input.

## contact

Send mail to [x@icyphox.sh](mailto:x@icyphox.sh) or
[anirudh@oppiliappan.com](mailto:anirudh@oppiliappan.com). Should you
need it, my [PGP key](/static/gpg.txt):

```
FE1B 8FCF E6C1 6222 F157 1C8E 8A93 F96F 78C5 D4C4
```

I'm also available on IRC as `icy` on [libera.chat](https://libera.chat)
and [rizon.net](https://rizon.net).

Some of my links:
- Lobsters [@icy](https://lobste.rs/u/icy)
- Hacker News [@icy](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=icy)
- Steam [@icyphox](https://steamcommunity.com/id/icyphox)
- GitHub [@icyphox](https://github.com/icyphox)
- Fediverse [@icy@icyphox.sh](https://h.icyphox.sh/u/icy)
- Twitter [@icyphox](https://twitter.com/icyphox)

I'm generally uninterested in social media and don't often post on any.

If you're interested in **hiring me** -- here's my
[résumé](https://cdn.icyphox.sh/resume.pdf).

## this site

This site is built using [vite](https://git.icyphox.sh/vite) -- a static
site generator written in Go. The source for this site is
[here](https://git.icyphox.sh/site), licensed under MIT. All content on
this site is available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.

At present, this site is hosted on Netlify. It loads no third-party
scripts. I don't care for analytics or statistics; I value your privacy.